Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Takashi Murakami and The 500 Arhats

It's artist's first large-scale show in fourteen years in his homeland Japan. In the center of the exhibition is 100 meters long epic painting The 500 Arhats, one of the largest artworks ever created in the history of art. The inspiration behind the painting came from the legend of the 500 arhats, Buddha’s followers who spread his teachings. To produce the work on such a large scale in small time frame, Murakami hired about 100 art students to work on shifts.

Extracts of The 500 Arhats. So so many details! It would had taken hours (unfortunately I only had one) to study them all. Fortunately they had included explanations for all the different parts of the painting